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Ever find yourself doing boring, repetitive tasks as a web developer? Today, I'm going to show you how you can cut those meta-tasks out of your development cycle with a little bit of automation. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to easily perform those repetitive tasks with Apache Ant.
Every few weeks, we revisit some of our reader's favorite posts from throughout the history of the site. This tutorial was first published in March of 2011.
Intro: What is Ant?
Ant makes it incredibly easy to define a set of tasks that you can then execute with a few commands.
Ant is a piece of software that was originally built for automating software builds. It's made by Apache (yes, as in Apache server), and its primarily purpose is to build Java applications. When you're building software (or, in our case, websites/apps), you do several tasks that are identical each time you build or publish or deploy your project. It's a waste of your valuable time to do this manually. Ant makes it incredibly easy to define a set of tasks that you can then execute with a few short-and-sweet commands through the terminal.
Ready? Let's Get started!
Step 0: Creating our Dummy Project
Before we get to Ant, we need to have a project to work with here. Here's the
index.html file I'm using:
<!DOCTYPE html>   <meta charset="UTF-8" /> <title>Dummy Project</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/reset.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/grid.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/custom.css" />

 Demo Page

 There are three CSS files and three JavaScript files in this project.

Eric Meyer's Reset

Grid.css from the Blueprint CSS

A custom stylesheet

 jQuery

 Douglas Crockford's Top Down Operator Precedence files tokens.js and parse.js.

 All these files are uncompressed; that's the point of this tutorial, after all.

As you can see, this explains the rest of the project. If you download the project (link at the top), you'll get the CSS and JavaScript files.
So, what are we going to do with this project? As you can see, we've got multiple CSS and JavaScript files linked up in this project. What we'll do is compile and compress each into its respective file and FTP it all up to a server. Before all of that, we'll start by installing Ant.
Step 1: Installing Ant
Installing Ant can be a rather daunting task. Thankfully, both the Windows and Mac installation process is pretty similar. If you're on Linux, I'm going to assume you either have Ant installed already, know how, or can figure it out without my hand-holding.
If you're on a Mac, you probably already have Ant installed; however, some of the more advanced tasks (in our case, FTP) won't work. So, we'll install the latest version.
Before we begin, I'll point you to the full instructions that Apache offers: you can get them here. (Unfortunately, that's the whole manual for Ant; I can't do any better, as it's done with frames. You'll see the "Installing Apache Ant" link in the left frame.) What I tell you below can all be found in there (and more besides), but my version is a little more web-developer friendly.
First off, let's make sure we have the right Java dependencies. Whether you're on Windows or Mac, you'll need the Java Development Kit (JDK) - at least version 1.4. You can download it here. If you're not sure which version of the JDK you have, run the command
java -version in the terminal / command line. As I understand it, the JDK version number is the same as the Java version number.
Now, let's download the latest version of Ant. You can get it from the download page for the binary distribution (of course, you can get the source and compile it yourself, if that's how you roll). You'll find the links half-way down the page:
Once you've downloaded and unzipped it, we have to install it. This is what you'll get:
The first part of the installation differs with your platform. Let's start with the Windows steps:
Windows-Specific Install Bits
First, you'll have to choose the folder in which you'd like to install Ant. I went with
C:\ant, but it's up to you. Create that folder, and move the
lib, and
etc folders from your download folder to that folder. You'll also want to move
fetch.xml and
Once you've done that, you'll have to setup some environmental variables. If you aren't sure how to do this, you can find instructions here (Make these system variables—although, truthfully, it shouldn't matter). This is what you'll need to set up:
- You'll need a variable called
ANT_HOME; this should point to the folder to which you moved the Ant components. Example:
- You'll need a variable called
JAVA_HOME; this might already be there, but if it's not, it should point to the folder holding your Java install. Mine is
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_18.
- You'll need to modify you're
Pathvariable. This is a list of folders the command line searches through to find the commands you want to execute. DON'T overwrite this competely; just add
;%ANT_HOME%\binto the end of it. Don't miss that semicolon; that's what separates the paths in the list. You might be able to guess that the
%ANT_HOME%bit references the variable we made earlier.
Now, you've got Ant installed on Windows! There's one more important step, though; so skip pver the Mac piece and keep following along.
Mac-Specific Install Bits
You've already got ant installed on your Mac; you can see this by running the command
which ant on the terminal. This will output something along the lines of
/usr/bin/ant, as the path to the Ant executable you use. However, if you actually go to that folder, you'll find that it's just a symlink to the real stuff.
As you can see, for me it's linked to
/usr/share/java/ant-1.8.1/bin/ant. Now, you could use this, but when I tried to, I wasn't able to use the FTP component. Rather than install Ant somewhere else and mess with the symlink, I chose to do this: move what was in the
usr/share/java/ant-1.8.1 folder into a subfolder called
_old and move the new stuff in. You'll have to move the
lib, and
etc folders, plus the
fetch.xml and
get-m2.xml files. Now, that symlink will point to the updated version of ant. If you run
ant -version in the terminal, you should see that you've got version 1.8.2 (or whatever version is latest at the time you're reading this).
Back to All OS Instructions
There's one more step to finish the installation. There are several optional components that don't come with Ant, but that we'll need for our project, and that you may want to use down the road. Let's get them now.
You'll start by opening a command line or terminal and changing to the directory that you've just installed Ant in. More importantly, it's the directory you put the
fetch.xml file in. Now, run this command:
ant -f fetch.xml -Ddest=system
This will download and install quite a few optional components; this isn't one of those blink-and-it's-over commands: it could take a few minutes.
Now, you've got Ant installed and ready to run; let's get to work.
Step 2: Creating the
build.xml File
Ant uses an XML file to store the tasks for the current project.
Ant uses an XML file to store the tasks for the current project; when you're in that project's directory on the command line, you'll be able to run the command
ant TASK_NAME_HERE, and it will find the appropriate task within the XML file and execute it.
If you're not familiar with XML, don't worry. XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language, and it's very similar to HTML. It uses tags and attributes to define data. Actually, it's more similar to XHTML (RIP), in that the rules are strict: all tags and attributes must be lowercase, values are quoted, a doctype is required, etc. Don't worry though, you'll get the hang of it.
The XML file that Ant looks for by default should be named
build.xml; you'll want to put it in your project folder.
So what exactly is going in the XML file? Here's a start:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <project name="Compress, Concatenate, and FTP CSS and JS" default="initialize"> </project>
Looks like HTML, eh? The first line is an XML doctype. Next, we have the root node, which is a
project. I've added two attributes to it: a
name, which just explains what our list of tasks will do; and a
default, which defines the default task to run.
See, here's how the default task idea works. Let's say we create a task called
call_mom. We could run that from the terminal by doing this:
ant call_mom
If you find that most of the time you run Ant on a project, you're calling the same task, you'll want to make it the default. In our case, we've set
initialize as the default task, the one that will run if we don't tell ant to run anything.
ant initialize ant
These are both the same.
Now that we've got our
build.xml file, let's create our first task.
Step 3: Writing our First Task
Tasks are called
targets within the
build.xml file. Check this out:
<target name="call_mom"> <echo> Hi Mom! </echo> </target>
Plug this into your
build.xml file and run
ant call_mom on the console. You should output that looks something like this:
Buildfile: /path/to/your/build.xml call_mom: [echo] Hi Mom! BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 0 seconds
In its output, Ant will have an entry for all the tasks that are run. Then, any output from those tasks will be displayed, tabbed in under the appropriate task name. As you can see, we've called the
echo task, which prints out whatever we put inside it.
But how did I know echo was a task? Well, you can get a list of the built-in tasks here in the documentation. This is a good time to point out that many tasks have several ways they can be called. For example, we could also have done:
. What I show you isn't the only way to do things.
Now that you're starting to warm into the ideas of Ant, let's talk about properties.
Step 4: Creating a Properties Files
Ant has properties, which are very like variables in a programming language.
As you use Ant more, you might find that you have a boilerplate
build.xml file that you only tweak slightly. One of these tweaks might be file/folder names. Ant has properties, which are very like variables in a programming language. You can create them this way (this is done inside a task).
<property name="js_dir" value="js" />  <property name="css_dir">stylesheets</property>
You can also move all these properties out into a separate file, and import the file. That's what we'll do here. This brings us to creating our first (real) task:
<target name="get_properties"> <property file="ant.properties" /> <echo>Imported Properties</echo> </target>
We've called our task
get_properties. It involves two actions: first, we use the
property task to import the file (we can do that with the
file attribute). Then, we echo a message saying that it was successful. It's that simple.
Of course, we'll need to create the
ant.properties file. This is super-simple; here's the one we'll use today:
css_dir = css js_dir = js assets_dir = assets
You might think this actually makes it harder, because our variables names are longer than the values themselves. Well, that's true, but it gives us some flexibility in the use of our
build.xml file, makes it more reusable and more shareable.
Step 5: Creating Some More Tasks
Okay, now let's get serious. We've obviously got quite a few more tasks to create before we have a useful
build.xml file.
Here's a list of the tasks we need to create:
- One to compile the CSS files.
- One to compress the CSS file.
- One to compile the JavaScript files.
- One to compress the JavaScript file.
- One to upload everything to our server.
- One to initialize the other tasks.
- One to clean up what the others do.
We're going to use a few different tactics to do all this, to give to a good overview of how Ant works.
Compiling the CSS and JavaScript
Let's start with the compiling tasks; these take a set of files and concatenate them all into one file. Ant has a built-in task named
concat that does this.
<target name="concat_css"> <concat destfile="${assets_dir}/style.css"> <filelist id="files" dir="${css_dir}"> <file name="reset.css" /> <file name="grid.css" /> <file name="custom.css" /> </filelist> </concat> </target>
I've named this task
concat_css. Inside, we're only running the
concat task. As you can see, the file they will be concatenated into (
destfile, or destination file) will be in
assets/style.css. You'll notice that I'm use the
assets_dir properties, which will substitute the correct value in. You must wrap usages of properties in the dollar-sign-and-braces notation.
Inside the
concat task, we define a
filelist This is just one of the ways that we can grab a bunch of files. I'm using it here because it allows me to define the order I'd like these files concatenated. I'm giving it an id, which gives us access to the file set in the same way we'd use a parameter (although we won't be doing that). It also has the attribute
dir, which tells the task which folder to find the files in. Then, inside, just define the appropriate
file nodes, with their
name attribute holding the filename.
There's your first real task! Hopefully, it makes sense. While we're at it, the JavaScript one isn't too different:
<target name="concat_js"> <concat destfile="${assets_dir}/script.js"> <filelist id="files" dir="${js_dir}"> <file name="jquery-latest.js" /> <file name="tokens.js" /> <file name="parse.js" /> </filelist> </concat> </target>
Compressing the CSS and JavaScript
Compression gets a bit trickier, because it's not built into Ant. However, Ant supports outside tasks via java .jar files. This is incredibly handy for us, because YUI Compressor is available as a .jar file (that's the only way it's available). You can download it on the YUI Library download page. You'll want to save it to a smart location, and maybe rename it. I've saved it to
MY_USER_FOLDER/bin/yui.jar. Do what pleases you.
Now, YUI Compressor will compress both JavaScript and CSS. What we can do here is create one
compress task, and then call it from two more specific tasks. We can do this because Ant has support for calling other tasks and passing in parameters. Let's see how this works:
<target name="compress"> <java jar="/Users/andrew/bin/yui.jar" fork="true"> <arg value="${file}" /> <arg value="-o" /> <arg value="${file}" /> </java> <echo>${file}</echo> </target>
We're using the
java command here. This is very similar to running the jar file from the command line. The
jar attribute points to the jar file. If the
fork attribute is true, the jar will be run in a Java virtual machine separate from the one Ant is running on. Then, inside the
java node, we define the arguments. On the command line, we would pass in
input.file -o output.file. So, we do the same thing here.
But, where's the
file property coming from? From here:
<target name="compress_css" depends="concat_css"> <antcall target="compress"> <param name="file" value="${assets_dir}/style.css" /> </antcall> </target>
This is our CSS compression task. First, notice that the
target node has a second attribute:
depends. You can probably guess that this means that the
compress_css tasks depends on the
concat_css task, so it must be run first. This way, we can call
compress_css and it will automatically call
concat_css first.
Now, what's going on inside? We're executing an
antcall task, which simply calls another task within our
build.xml file—in this case, that's our
compress task. Inside that, we can create as many parameters as we need to, each having a name and a value. Yep, this is very much like calling a function. This is the
file parameter that we use within our
compress task.
And here's the JavaScript version:
<target name="compress_js" depends="concat_js"> <antcall target="compress"> <param name="file" value="${assets_dir}/script.js" /> </antcall> </target>
Don't forget, this one is dependant on
Getting the Ball Rolling
Way back at the top—on our root
project node—we set the
default task as
initialize. We haven't created that task yet, so let's do it now.
<target name="initialize" depends="get_properties,clean_up"> <mkdir dir="${assets_dir}" /> <antcall target="compress_css" /> <antcall target="compress_js" /> <echo>Done!</echo> </target>
This task depends on two other tasks (one of which we haven't created yet); we just use a comma separated list to require multiple tasks.
Inside, the first task is to create our assets directory, with the
mkdir task (just like on the command line). Next, we make two
antcalls, one to compress the CSS, and one to compress the JavaScript. Remember, these two tasks depend on their respective concatenation functions, so they will call those. Finally, we'll
echo a message letting the user know that we're done.
Cleaning Up
What about that
clean_up task that
initialize depends on? It's pretty simple:
<target name="clean_up" depends="get_properties"> <delete dir="${assets_dir}" /> </target>
It merely deletes the assets directory. This isn't completely necessary, but you might find it useful.
Uploading the Project
Let's create one more task; we want to upload our project to a server. Thanks to the
ftp command, this is a cinch.
<target name="upload_files" depends="initialize"> <ftp server="your_server.com" userid="your_user_name" password="your_password" port="21" remotedir="/public_html" passive="yes" binary="no"> <fileset dir="."> <include name="assets/*" /> <include name="index.html" /> </fileset> </ftp> </target>
We're calling this task
upload_files, and it depends on
initialize. We're using the FTP task here. As you can see, all the important info is stored in the attributes. If you've worked with FTP clients before, all these options should be familiar.
- Inside the
ftpnode, we've created a collection of files that we want to upload. In this case, we're using a
- We have a
dirattribute on the
filsetnode that defines the root directory for what we want to collect.
- Then, inside, we use the
includenode to get the specific files: we just pass as the name attribute the file(s) we want to get. In our example, we're getting everything the assets directory and its contents, and the index.html file.
Once you fill in your server information in this task, it should upload those files for you!
Notice how we've arranged these tasks, though. If we run
ant on the command line, we're concatenate and compress the CSS and JavaScript, but we won't upload it; that's not the default. If we want to upload it, we can run
ant upload_files; since that depends on
initialize, we don't have to call
initialize first. Of course, we can call any individual task we'd like (for example:
ant compress_js).
Conclusion: Wrapping It Up
Before we close, there are a few odds and ends I'd like to mention:
- Notice that I didn't use the
dependstask to daisy-chain tasks together. You could do that, but I've chosen to keep that to actual dependant tasks, and create the
initializetask to call the others. This just seems more correct semantically.
- What I've shown you is just a small sliver of what Ant is capable of. If you want to learn more, start by checking out the tasks overview. This will show you all the built-in tasks. You'll also realize that there are many ways to do the same this (as I showed you with the
echotask). The patterns I've used are by no means the "one right way." Also, the Ant Wiki is a great resource.
- It might be nice if we could have a task that will parse the HTML, find the stylesheets and scripts, and get them in the correct order. Unfortunately—since Ant wasn't written for web developers—that's not built in. We'd have to create an antlib (an extension), and that would be written in Java. For now, we'll have to hard-code out lists of stylesheets and scripts.
And that's a wrap! I hope you've learned some new techniques that will save you time in the future. If you have any questions, feel free to post them below! Thank you so much for reading!


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The seminar will discuss:
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Speakers will include:
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Not much to look at, right? Wrong! I spent a good FIVE MINUTES staring at the kombucha tea mother, gently swirling and undulating right after being placed in its tea-and-sugar bath, the watching-chickens effect. I like the look of the mother, although some people find the whole thing kinda…icky. If you're not familiar, this is a sparkling drink, tartly acidic and slightly sweet, made by floating the mother—it's also called a SCOBY, symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast—in a solution of tea (black or green or both) and sugar. Let it ferment for around a week and a fizzy beverage is the result. It's quite impressive. Not surprising, there are all sorts of magical health benefits ascribed to kombucha tea, and from the bit of reading I've done, none of it is really "evidence-based," to use the popular medical description for stuff that's scientifically proven, whatever exactly that means. In any case, nobody really says it's BAD for you, maybe it is magical, and I find it…refreshing.
Making it is easy: 4-5 tea bags in some water for a few minutes, top up the hot tea with cold water to about 3/4 gallon (around 3 liters) so it's all cooled down, then plunk in your SCOBY—any size will do, it grows!—along with a cup or two of kombucha tea (you store the mother in the tea), and you're done. Cover with a clean cloth to let in air but not dust, stash in a warm, dark place, and taste test in five days or so: if it's too sweet, leave longer, if it's too tart (the main bacterium makes acetic acid, which is basically vinegar), well, test earlier next time. It's all pretty loose and easy, and each batch you get a new, extra mother that you can pass on. Do a search and you'll find lots of details.
My first mother I was given in a jam jar at a raw food talk, and I made kombucha steadily for a couple of years, for no reason other than that I like it (many people refuse to even taste it?!)—after a couple years off, I'm back in production. Yet another thing to grow!


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Here's a simple idiom with potentially profound implications: Don't bite off more than you can chew. Whether applied to eating steak, making personal commitments or managing commodity price risk, ignoring this advice can result in unwanted or even disastrous consequences.
I'm reminded of this phrase when I hear from farmers who've had bad experiences with marketing. Much of the time, those experiences can be traced back to doing too much at once. That's a problem you can easily solve.
Let's define "doing too much at once." In this context, it refers not to the amount of production committed or contracts purchased. Rather, it has to do with engaging in marketing without committing the time necessary to see things through.
It would be like rushing through training for a marathon. You'd be sore. You might feel like stopping or quitting altogether. It wouldn't matter if you had run races before or were completely new to it. If you tried to do too much at once, you'd risk injury and pain.
For those of you who have been around the block with marketing as well as to those who haven't yet started, what if you tried committing to consistent marketing? What if you took a percentage of your production – 10 percent or 100 percent, you decide – and treated it like a marathon?
Decisions would be made with the far-off finish line in mind: your weighted average price (WAP). WAP is the value of priced bushels, un-priced bushels assigned the current market value, and hedge positions. It is a means for you to measure the quality of your marketing decisions. Getting an accurate measurement requires a commitment to consistent marketing over time.
Short-term results would have less emotional impact. If you sold corn today at $5 and saw it rally to $5.25, you'd still be around to see it drop to $4.50. That's a hypothetical scenario. The point is that the market is always going to move, and one decision – good or bad – doesn't tell the whole story.
If you've had a bad experience with marketing or no experience at all, I encourage you to start slowly and work your way up. Pace yourself. Develop some simple strategies and maintain the discipline to execute them.
If you start small and stay consistent, you may not see big results. However, you will learn, and there's great value in learning what marketing can do for you. Not to mention, you'll learn more about yourself.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - How important is certification? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in How important is certification? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Poland View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message crazy_canuckJoined: 09 Jan 2012Posts: 3Location: Pleszew, Poland Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 3:34 pm Post subject: How important is certification? Greetings from a total noob. As a quick introduction to all of you regular posters - I am a Canadian already living in Poland. I have been living here for just over 1 1/2 years. My husband and I came here after I sold my company in Canada, he is a returning Polish citizen (25 years in Canada). We came because we had access to an apartment and we wanted to do some traveling around Europe. It was never our intention to settle down in Poland for the long-term but here we are and here we'll stay, at least for next 5-10 years. I have no background in teaching English, just some teaching of software. I would never have thought about it if not for the dozens of locals telling me how easy it should be for us to find students. Of course I am taking that with a grain of salt, after all what do they know about trying to find a job teaching English. Ultimately we want to supplement our income by providing private lessons. We currently live in a small city in the Wielkopolska region but plan to move to Jelenia Gora later this year. After all of that my question is this: how important is it for me to have some type of certification? I can do an online TESOL course but would that be a total waste of money? Doing the CELTA course in Krakow or Wroclaw would be logistically challenging and it's certainly not that cheap. Do you think any school would hire someone like me, even at lower rates, just to give me some experience? Well, in fact I could get a job here in the town where we live but not until next September and we just don't want to stay here that long. I totally get that we should have thought about this while we were in Canada but honestly, it never would have occurred to me that we'd stay! Any insight you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Back to top sharterJoined: 25 Jun 2008Posts: 878Location: All over the place Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:23 pm Post subject: Do the CELTA Do the CELTA-it'll open loads of doors for you and doesn't take long. You need it for good schools and for the sake of your students. Back to top hrvatskiJoined: 16 Nov 2008Posts: 270 Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:44 pm Post subject: Would you want to be taught something by someone who has had no training in what they're doing? In fairness to the students, do a CELTA. Back to top crazy_canuckJoined: 09 Jan 2012Posts: 3Location: Pleszew, Poland Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:49 pm Post subject: Thanks for the input! The reason I wanted to go to a school in the first place was to gain experience. I totally agree that I wouldn't want to learn from a someone with no training. I just thought that maybe some schools would hire people with no experience and do on the job training, kind of like Berlitz. As I said there is the option of working where we live but it's not a recognized school or anything, just a locally owned small business, run by a Polish woman. Although there is a Leader school here - are either of you familiar with them? Anyway, if I go the CELTA route would you recommend the British Council or do you believe they're all relatively close in teaching quality? And one more thing ...would you recommend taking the course at any particular time of year? Would it make sense, for example to take the course in August and then apply at schools in early September? Or is that not really important? Thanks again, I really appreciate you taking the time to answer. Back to top PierogiMonsterJoined: 17 Jun 2010Posts: 148 Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:04 pm Post subject: I've been teaching English for eight years. With my BA English and PGCE, I've never had any trouble getting good work. However, for professional development reasons I did the CELTA here in Krakow last August at The British Council (it's my town, I had the money and the time). I'm very glad I did the course: it has a lot to teach even experienced teachers (and helped kick out a few bad habits, too!) and my teaching has definitely improved. As for someone new to the business, definitely go for the CELTA. You'll feel like a pro and work like one, too. And it's recognised the world over (more so than my higher-level PGCE, for example). An August course? Sure, but why wait so long? The British Council? I can definitely recommend Krakow BC: exellent tutoring. Back to top crazy_canuckJoined: 09 Jan 2012Posts: 3Location: Pleszew, Poland Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:14 pm Post subject: Quote: An August course? Sure, but why wait so long? Hi PierogiMonster! I can take the course at any time, it's just a matter of working out where we can stay as we have a small dog. But that's not a big issue, I was just worried about taking the course too early. We have some things to do here (like find a new place to live!) and in Canada before I can settle in to a job. I don't know if a school would care when the course was taken. Thanks for the note about the BC course - I'd love to stay in Krakow for a month, that's for sure. But honestly we have family in Wroclaw and I don't want to offend anyone. 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In the past 100 years there have been four influenza pandemics, which include:
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The Central Connecticut softball team fell to the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds in an NEC doubleheader at home on Saturday afternoon. The Blue Devils (13-11, 2-2 NEC) fell in game one 4-0 before pushing game two to extra innings, ultimately falling 4-3 in eight.
Junior Laura Messina took to the circle against the Blackbirds (13-22, 2-0 NEC). She posted a total of nine strikeouts in 15 innings while allowing 15 hits, six earned runs and just three walks. Messina's record drops to 11-8 on the season.
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The Blackbirds took an early 1-0 lead with an RBI double from Jazmin Rodriguez in the top of the first. Central held LIU to just one until the top of the sixth when Rodriguez smacked a solo homer to lift the LIU lead to two.
The Blue Devils attempted to respond in the bottom of the sixth, leading off the inning with a single rip up the middle from sophomore Evie Rentzel, but the following three batters went down one-two-three to head into the top of the seventh.
The Blackbirds added two insurance runs in the top of the seventh to give LIU the 4-0 advantage.
The game marks just the second time this season that Central has been shut out by an opponent.
The Blue Devils managed five hits including a double from freshman Alexis Debrosse. Junior Kat Malcolm went 2-for-2 at the plate and senior Arielle Bruno tallied a hit of her own.
The Blackbirds posted seven hits and left six on base, compared to seven left on base by CCSU.
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The Blackbirds got on the board early again in game two on a Rodriguez RBI single to left.
Central overcame the 1-0 deficit however, and took the lead in the bottom of the third when Malcolm blasted her second home run of the season to drive in freshman Sami Duffy, who reached on a walk.
LIU responded in the top of the fifth with two more runs to put the Blue Devils behind, 3-2.
CCSU tied it up in the bottom of the fifth. The Blue Devils kicked off the half inning at the top of the order with two straight singles from Bruno and Malcolm. Rentzel followed with a fielder's choice to load the bases before Debrosse hit one to third, rendering both Malcolm and Bruno out at third on a double play.
With two on and two outs, NEC Player of the Week Tessa Brown sent a single to left to drive in Rentzel and even the score at three.
The score remained deadlocked through the sixth and seventh before LIU posted a lone run in the top of the eighth for the win.
Both squads tallied eight hits while CCSU left nine on base and LIU left seven. Central committed just one error in game two, compared to two in game one and none all day for the Blackbirds.
Malcolm led the Central offense in game two, going 2-for-3 at the plate, including one home run, while driving in two RBI and scoring once. Rentzel also posted two hits on the day and one run. Bruno, Brown, sophomore Eileen Purcell and freshman Sarah Drazin each added one hit for the Blue Devils.
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MOCA, a sizeable farming depot 16km east of Santiago, is set amid some of the most fertile land in the valley. It's better known, though, for two episodes from Dominican history – as the birthplace of the 1842 Moca Constitution, which set democratic standards for government that have rarely been adhered to, and as the site of nineteenth-century despot Ulises Heureaux's assassination. There's nothing here to commemorate the former, but the latter event is celebrated in downtown Moca at a small park on Calle Vasquez, where you'll find the Monument to the Tyrant Killers, a small Deco sculpture honouring assassins José Contreras and José Inocencio, erected right on the spot where Heureaux was shot. Across the street from the park, above Espinal Car Wash, a miniature locomotive has been placed to honour the old railroad that brought initial prosperity to Moca, while the rest of downtown is crowded with storefront businesses, warehouses and restaurants.
Nicer than anything in the workaday downtown district, the nineteenth-century Iglesia de Corazón de Jesús, corner of Sánchez and Corazón de Jesús, sports a neo-Plateresque facade and a prominent clock tower. The spacious interior floods with light and boasts an impressive pipe organ. From the church you can also drive northwest down Avenida Duarte to the local cigar factory.
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Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. (born January 21, 1951) is the 82nd and current Attorney General of the United States and the first African American to hold the position, serving under President Barack Obama.
Holder previously served as a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, a United States Attorney, Deputy Attorney General of the United States and worked at the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. He was senior legal advisor to then-Senator Barack Obama during Obama's presidential campaign and one of three members of Obama's vice-presidential selection committee.
Eric H. Holder, Jr. was born in the Bronx, New York, to parents with roots in Barbados. Holder's father, Eric Himpton Holder, Sr. (1905–1970) was born in Saint Joseph, Barbados and arrived in the United States at the age of 11. He later became a real estate broker. His mother, Miriam, was born in New Jersey, while his maternal grandparents were immigrants from Saint Philip, Barbados. Holder grew up in East Elmhurst, Queens, and attended public school until the age of 10. When entering the 4th grade he was selected to participate in a program for intellectually-gifted students. In 1969, he graduated from Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan and attended Columbia University, where he played freshman basketball and was co-captain of his team. He earned a A.B. degree in American history in 1973. Holder received his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School, graduating in 1976. He worked for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund during his first summer and the United States Attorney during his second summer.


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Junior Seau. San Diego legend. New England injured reserver. Man of the people. Pillar of the community. And, obviously, advocate for women's issues.
From The Smoking Gun today:
Two women are suing NFL star Junior Seau, claiming that the future Hall of Famer drunkenly called them "female-specific profanities" and tossed drinks on them during a bar confrontation last year. The women, who are only identified as "Jane Roe #1" and "Jane Roe #2" in their January 8 complaint, charge that the 37-year-old linebacker "physically threatened and attacked" them last May at Side Bar, a popular San Diego nightspot. The Superior Court lawsuit does not detail what precipitated the alleged incident, though a footnote in the document does quote what Seau reportedly said to the Roes.
"Put your shirt on, your tits are too small!" he allegedly counseled Jane Roe #1. Jane Roe #2 allegedly received this fitness advice: "Get on a treadmill, you c—t!" The women also claim that Seau threw two drinks on them, "ruining Plaintiffs' clothing (and evening)."
Yeah, you know, that would do it. Charming fellow.
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Earlier this week we reported on an article written by Aaron Goldstein for The American Daily, in which he predicts the Tampa Bay Devil Rays to win the World Series. We couldn't help but notice the date of the article was April 1, 2006, and we decided to give Mr. Goldstein the benefit of the doubt that he was in fact NOT insane, and was merely pranking us on April Fool's Day. There did seem to be some circumstantial evidence that it was not a joke, but we chose skepticism. Now, Mr. Goldstein's article has been republished for the Intellectual Conservative. This time, the article is dated April 5, 2006. Fool me once, shame on…shame on you…Fool me…you can't get fooled again. Therefore it appears as though we were wrong to think that Mr. Goldstein had conceived of a silly, albeit elaborate prank. It is now official, Mr. Goldstein is the first person in the history of the universe to predict the D-Rays to win the World Series. We are not sure who to contact first…The Guiness Book of World Records, The National Enquirer, or some men in white jackets.
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"Africa is, indeed, coming into fashion." - Horace Walpole (1774)
A depressing quote from a guy I know who works for the International Crisis Group. It's true.
One of the teenagers from Wilton has the "Sermon of the Week" for CBF. Check it out here. I'm so proud of Matt - he's a great kid, as you'll be able to tell from the sermon, which he preached at youth-led worship.
I (heart) the CCM channel!
My last days in Kinshasa weren't so bad. The place wears you down quickly, though. Wednesday Wonderful Taxi Driver John had to go to his other job (see below), so he had his friend José pick me up at the Cultural Center. That's right. José. José is Kinois, born and raised in the Congolese capital, and doesn't appear to speak any Spanish. I don't know. Anyway, he's just as nice as Wonderful Taxi Driver John, although José's car was hot-wired. No, really. There were no keys. He had taken me to Kabila's mausoleum the other day, and yesterday took me to the Academie des Beaux Artes (Academy of Fine Arts), the professional art school here. The professors there have two galleries in which they sell sculpture, ceramics, and paintings. There was some lovely stuff there – I splurged on this painting, which will look so cute in my living room.
So I finally got to really see the Congo River, which is, sadly, a lifetime dream. John drove me out to what he called a "township" to a place just by the water. We could see the rapids that make navigation from the Atlantic to Kinshasa impossible. And all the space where you see rocks and grass is covered by the river during the high season, which is November.
...but I can see the Congo River at sunset. That's the other Congo on the far side of the river. And I met a Texan in the hotel lobby tonight.
Here's a depressing story about the Congo in this week's Time.
My flight on Sunday was supposed to leave Goma at 2:30, so, as Tom put it, we left right on time at 4:15. Here's a lovely picture of the remarkable variety of goods that were unloaded at Mbuji-Mayi, where we sat for an hour. That's corrugated aluminum sheeting, which was apparently on top of the mattresses and various bags of grain and boxes of medicine. The airline used the first-class cabin as a cargo hold - it was really somethin'. Anyway, we waited at Mbuji-Mayi for another hour, which would have been okay, except it meant that we arrived in Kinshasa after dark, which is Not A Good Thing. After carrying someone else's child down the stairs off the airplane (hey, she weighed less than her mother's suitcase!), I actually made it through the airport with no trouble whatsoever. My hotel was supposed to send a taxi to wait for me, and had said it would be $50 to ride into town.
This is what hell looks like. Kinshasa. The Congo river is in the distance but you can't really see it through the smog. I would write more, but internet access is 1 dollar per 4 minutes. Kin is actually more expensive than Tokyo, even if you aren't an expat.
The generator at Karibu is broken and there's some problem with the power supply lines that run from the Ruzizi dam at Bukavu (the city at the southern end of Lake Kivu). So at night now, it is really dark. Really dark. This makes things like cooking dinner a bit of a challenge, but it also means that you can see every star in the sky. The other night I came home from a party late, walked out on the back porch, and, there, clear as day, right on the southeastern horizon, was the Southern Cross. I'd never seen it before - it's obvious why early navigators relied on it. So beautiful.
It occurs to me that this dress matches my cute boots perfectly. Oh, it's going to rock to go to Two Ton Tuesdays this summer!
FINALLY got my turquoise dress back yesterday. Da Ellie, the dressmaker responsible for this creation promised to have it done in four days, but that was three weeks ago. But it was worth the wait – the dress is great. Anyway, after picking it up in the middle of the rain yesterday, I wore it over to a grocery store where several friends work. They could not stop laughing – here we are in our model poses:
Well, I finally learned why there are soldiers all over the place at my apartment. Seems the Minister of Education is in town for a seminar, staying at the hotel, and, apparently, unfortunately, thoroughly enjoyed watching my tennis lesson yesterday. (Have I mentioned that I'm taking tennis lessons? Right. I'm taking tennis lessons from a guy named Salama. Entirely in French and Swahili - it's a hoot.) Now. All I have to say about that is that if you're the Minister of Education of a country the size of western Europe with as many problems as this one has, and the most entertaining thing you can find to do during your coffee break is watch me play tennis for an hour on Wednesday afternoon, you're very much in need of something better to do.
Sunday I got to talk to my parents. I'm afraid to know how much the bill for that 45-minute conversation will be, but it sure was nice to hear their voices. During that conversation, Daddy said I am not posting enough pictures of the lake when I blog about how beautiful it is all the time. So here you go:
These are some pictures from Rwanda that I took on the bus-ride-from-the-tenth-circle the other day. I really like this view of Nyira volcano from Rwanda. Nyira is entirely in Congo, but you really only get the idea of just how big it is when you see it from northwestern Rwanda. You can also see a little rise just to the right (it almost looks like part of the plateau on the right side of the volcano) that is the Nyamuragira volcano, also active, also in Congo. What a great place to pack several million people into.
Finally, this is a shot from closer to Ruhengeri, a city to the west of here. In the background you can see Sabinyo volcano and, to the right, I think Gahinga but it could be Visoke. Neither of them are active; the area is home to Rwanda's famous mountain gorillas. I totally didn't mean for there to be people or trees in the shot, but it turned out kindof cool. Plus it gives you an idea of how fast those drivers go on the downhill slopes.
When shopping in the few grocery stores in Goma that cater to Westerners, you have to adopt a sort of Soviet mentality. Just because something is there this week doesn't mean that it will be there ever again, so you'd better stock up just in case. So, Saturday while searching through Trameco in vain for a jar of peanut butter when I came across several jars of SALSA, of course I bought two. They cost $4 apiece, but who cares? The fact that salsa should not be 1) manufactured by Pringles, 2) in Belgium? So what? It's been 58 days since I left Austin, there's no chili powder within 3,000 miles of Goma, and I don't care.
The other night I ended up watching television (television! It's been, like, six weeks.) at my friend Junior's house with a very interesting group of people. We were watching a rugby match between England and Ireland, which was the championship game in something called the Six Nations ("It's like your Super Bowl," said Bitter Newcastle Mike. (To be fair, Mike was already annoyed with me for asking why England's team mascot isn't something more intimidating than a rose. I guess if you're playing leprechauns, it doesn't matter.)). That may be, but in the Super Bowl, the winner of the game is the winner of the season. Not so here. Despite the fact that Ireland crushed England with a last minute field goal, France was the winner of the Six Nations.
My trip to Kigali was nice, although I was really worn down by the time I arrived in the city. After the unpleasantness of Monday morning, a three hour ride through Rwanda's mountains was not exactly what I needed. On top of that, one of my seatmates really, really wanted to talk about Congolese politics and how Congo could improve its political system to be more like America. After a loooooonnnng discussion, he finally declared that the reason that American politics are better is that, "You have a Christian nation."
Well, there's nothing like a little mob violence first thing in the morning to get your day off to a great start. I woke up early this morning to catch a bus to Kigali to deal with some issues and whatnot. Aside from the fact that it was SO early, everything was normal - the guard found a moto-taxi, negotiated him down to a reasonable price, made me practice my Lingala, and sent me on my merry way. But when we were heading into town, traffic was really, really heavy. I thought maybe this is normal because I never go into the city so early and it was rush hour for the matatus, but, no. We got to the hospital (which is near the stadium), and all of a sudden a group of men had surrounded us and were yelling at my driver to stop. One of the guys grabbed the key to the moto, turned it off, and the rest of them started demanding that my driver give them money.
It's raining. Again. So today seemed like a good day to write about some cool new music Steve the Lawyer (No, not that one. Not the other one, either. That one.) suggested I check out. Brothers & Sisters are an Austin band (if they had just one more member they could be a neuftet!) and I guess one of the guys is Steve's roommate's ex-roommate. Domestic details aside, Brothers and Sisters has just put out a self-titled CD, and while it's not available to download online, they have several MP3's on their Myspace site. The album got a good review from the Chronicle as well. Of the tracks they have up on their site, I really like "Old Love Letters" and "Without You." They are clearly hugely influenced by Neil Young, but somehow manage to create something unique out of that influence, unlike a million other bands. Check it out if you get the chance.
And Be Here to Love Me, the wonderful documentary about Townes van Zandt's life and music, is finally out on DVD. If you are at all interested in roots music, you should definitely Netflix this one - read more impressions of the film here.
Who's awesome? Oh, yeah ... that'd be me! Only 7 wrong picks in the 1st round, and 5 of those don't matter anyway (darn you, Oklahoma!). This is my overall ranking on Yahoo - and unlike certain history PhD candidates, I only fill out one bracket:
Congo done got the bird flu. Luckily (?), the province where it's been discovered is a long way from here and I haven't eaten chicken here at all. What a mess this is going to be, especially for the women in the market whose entire livelihood depends on their ability to sell poultry.
"Teach us to care and not to care
It feels like there's nothing to write about today. After six weeks, the suffering and the constant negotiation over every aspect of life is wearing me down. I can't imagine what it's like for the people who live with this for their entire lives - I can easily "escape" for a weekend... and for the rest of my life. People here are stuck with the consequences of a century of greed, bad decisions, and selfishness on the part of the rest of the world. I just finished reading Shake Hands with the Devil, which is Lt. General Romeo Dallaire's account of his experiences as the commander of the UN peacekeeping mission to Rwanda in 1993-94. Dallaire repeatedly begged the international community to do something to stop the genocide in Rwanda and was ignored and used as a pawn in larger political games. He refers to the international response to the refugee flow into Goma -- where an estimated 1 million people, many of them participants in the genocide took shelter -- as "too much, too late," which is exactly right. Having done nothing to help in Rwanda, international aid agencies and governments flooded into Goma (too late to stop a cholera epidemic), but they focused too much aid in Goma and not enough in Rwanda. Meanwhile, the leaders of the genocide were quickly able to take over the refugee camps and organized the militias that still terrorize the region today. The world's active decision not to respond to the 1994 Rwandan genocide is a direct cause of the suffering and deaths of 4 million Congolese that has happened since 1998, and for the 1,200 people who die every single day in the eastern part of the country. And every single one of those people has a name.
Who called Syracuse making an early exit at the hands of the Aggies? Oh, yeah! It was obvious, y'all: anyone who lip syncs as well as Chris Walker had to make it to the second round.
Emily tagged me, like, a month ago, and since I'm waiting for a painfully slow download, today seemed like a good day to finally fill it out.
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The Onion mocks American missionaries who come to Africa in a pretty funny parody, but it's interesting that I was having a conversation yesterday with a missionary from Seattle who works with Heal Africa, mainly by helping them to raise support back in the states. She grew up as a missionary kid in Congo and knows the region and people very well. We were talking about the church and Congo's needs and she just turned to me and said, "People don't understand that the way of doing missions in Africa has to change, and really already has changed, just like everything else." She went on to point out that it's hard for American churches to realize just how Christianized Africa is -- and that missionaries working here are usually working with the children and grandchildren of those who converted forty years ago.
Tourney time! Of all the things I'm missing this week, getting to watch the first two rounds of the tournament while recovering from being out 'til 3 at SXSW the night before is right up there. The big question, though, is whether a bracket filled out in the eastern Congo will do better or worse than the one from two years ago that Skip and I filled out in an internet cafe in Tokyo late one night. The key, as the doctor long maintained, is to separate your emotions from your bracket decisions. It doesn't matter if you want to see Utah State make a Cinderella run to the Elite Eight; rationality suggests that that isn't going to happen. Ever.
So there it is, all a matter of public record. Send me your gloating emails as soon as results start coming in.
Beliefnet has a great piece this week on how modern-day American evanglicals have strayed from their strict separationist views of the appropriate relationship between church and state. Unlike certain other histories that take liberties with logic and twist facts to support an already-decided upon view of the world. Waldman's article is balanced, historically well-informed, and, plus, it involves the story of a 400-pound cheese wheel.
The fires in the Texas Panhandle are getting under control, but they're still burning and high winds are expected today - not at all a good thing. The Amarillo Globe-News has some incredible pictures of the devastation - and the heroic acts that saved towns - including this one from McLean taken by Henry Bargas.
Last night in Goma was super-clear, so you could see all three of the volcanoes near Goma. Over the weekend, I visited the cartographer's office to order some maps. This guy is incredible - he has hundreds of maps of Congo's provinces, districts, and cities and towns in blueprint form. You select a map and he then colors it in by hand. Unbelievable. Now I finally have some really good maps of North Kivu, South Kivu, and Goma, which will make The Advisor much happier.
There are really bad wildfires around my mom's hometown of Groom. The Amarillo Globe News has some pictures here and a story specifically about the Groom fire here. "Near the border of Gray and Donley counties" is exactly where the farm is, although the towns that were evacuated are all on the other side of I-40. Please say a prayer for everyone there.
I realized that I haven't posted many pictures lately; sorry about that. It's often really awkward to take out a camera here, and you can be arrested if you snap a shot in the presence of police or military personnel (official or otherwise), which pretty much rules out most public areas in Goma.
Things I learned how to say in five years of French class:
I love the Gilmore Girls Podcast! Whoever they are, this couple named David and Alicia are way more obsessed with the show than we are. No, really. We usually remember that we're talking about a tv show and characters … after awhile. Despite the fact that they've apparently only been watching for three seasons, David and Alicia know everything and think about patterns in the show and watch the show multiple times to prepare for their podcast, where they give the play-by-play of every new episode, available for FREE on iTunes and their website. Actually, Alicia analyzes the show's history. David mostly just comments on how cute Rory looks doing whatever she was up to that week. Totally wonderful – this is the first time I've listened to a non-musical podcast. I love that technology makes it possible for me to keep up with my favorite program.
Very interesting piece on teaching at Christian universities in Inside Higher Ed. I think the extent to which entirely open and honest discussion is permitted varies greatly professor-to-professor and institution-to-institution. My own experience as a student in political science at a Christian university suggests that discussion on controversial issues is often shut down -- but that it usually happens more because of the students and less because of the faculty. No matter what happens, you get into these issues that have well-defined positions in many churches (eg, the view of many, many conservative evangelicals that free-market capitalism and strong national defense is ordained by God), and when students or professors have decided that there's a "Christian" side to an issue, it's very hard to actually talk about it.
Lake Kivu at sunset last night was so lovely - the winds were high and the water was very choppy as the sun turned pink in the west. Very rare that we actually see a sunset. Of course I didn't have my camera, but here's a picture of how clear the lake is on a calm day. Due to the buildup of methane gas under the tectonic plate in the lake (that scientists think will eventually kill all 2 million people living in the lake basin unless someone spends millions of dollars to vent the lake), there are no crocodiles or hippos in Lake Kivu, unlike the rest of Africa's Great Lakes region. Lucky us?
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If the Aggies play basketball as well as they dance, they so make it to the second round in my bracket.
My darling little sister and her friends have way too much free time to put this much forethought into their close encounters with the CCM superstar kind at chapel. My apologies to those of you who don't understand why this is so funny. You had to be at Centrifuge '92, camp in '93 (That Shining Season: The Great Adventure), or, sad to admit, at the Starwood show in '94 where the Newsboys opened and we got to meet them because youth minister #3½'s girlfriend was their publicist and were such the rock star sixteen-year-olds.
As my sister's friend put it, the only thing they were missing was $20 from their moms to buy t-shirts. To wear as witnesses to school on Monday, of course.
Wednesday was SO boring in Goma. Apparently, the rest of the world celebrates March 8 as International Women's Day, so businesses were closed, there was no hope of interviewing anyone, and the men were left at home while their wives and daughters headed to Goma's stadium. It took 20 minutes to find a moto-taxi to get into the middle of town – a process that usually takes about 30 seconds.
Chloe won! Thanks for all of the (very) early morning text messages letting me know! So awesome - her final collection was not the best, but she is so sweet and will fit in much better at Banana Republic than the other two. I'm definitely going to check out her shop in Houston on the annual-trip-to-Houston-to-remember-why-it's-better-to-just-avoid-Houston this fall.
The big news on the BBC last night (I now have a short-wave radio, which makes evenings so much more interesting!) was the death of Ali Farka Toure. If you've never listened to Toure's music, now would be a great time to start. He singlehandedly created a genre that earned him the name "Father of the Desert Blues" as well as a couple of Grammys, including one for In the Heart of the Moon a few weeks ago. He had fans from all over the place. Last year on one of the late-night talk shows, I saw an interview about Sahara with Matthew McCounaughey, who mentioned that he'd traipsed out into the desert to find Toure and listen to him jam and how cool it was.
Sorry to those of you who don't care about Texas politics, but yesterday was primary day in Texas. DeLay won his primary, which will make the November race in his district really, really interesting. In state politics, Grusendorf lost. This is great news for Texas voters who are interested in finding a real solution to our problems financing our public education system. His loss was also a blow to Leininger's attempts to buy off government in Austin.
Tonight is the season finale of Project Runway! Having seen only photos of the collections, I think Santino will probably win if they gauge it only off of the final shows. If the judging is mostly about the whole season, it'll be Daniel, much as I would love to see Chloe win.
A lot of people will tell you that the first step to solving Congo's problems in the east involves finding a way to regularize, professionalize, and, most importantly, regularly pay and supply the national army. The army is called the FARDC, which sounds like a condo development in Reston but is actually the French acronym for "Army Forces of the DR Congo." In an attempt to create a united military force, part of the 2002 Sun City (the one in South Africa, not the Del Webb community) peace agreement calls for the integration of troops from the various rebel forces into the national army, along with the demobilization of both rebels and national army troops. So, troops who leave their units in this province are not treated as deserters (as they would be elsewhere in Congo), but instead are given a choice: they can join the national army, with a salary for a regular soldier of $12/month, which is only sometimes actually disbursed, or they can choose to demobilize, which starts a process of entering MONUC camps for retraining and weapons collection. A soldier who chooses to demobilize is given an initial payment of $110 and then $25/month for the next twelve months.
Very nice, laid-back weekend, in an expatriate-aid-workers-are-the-new-colonists kind of way. I was supposed to go to a party at the Red Cross house on Saturday night but didn't have a ride and was feeling a little sick, so I just stayed in, slept through church, and woke up feeling much better on Sunday afternoon. I went for a run that ended by the tennis courts at Karibu, where my friends Marc, Emmanuel, and Damien were playing tennis with a bunch of Damien's colleagues. Somehow I got talked into being Marc's partner in mixed doubles, which was interesting given that it's been, oh, six years since I'd been on a court. Thank goodness for those Baylor lessons and all those afternoons Lauren and I would go goof around on the Penland courts. If only my backhand were what it used to be...
Blogger was off-line for most of my internet time today, so no new posts. Sorry about that. I had a great weekend, though - details of that tomorrow.
One thing I forgot to mention the other day is the best purchase I made in Kigali - a new pillow. Much as I love the Karibu, and as comfortable as my apartment is, the pillows on my bed are made of really, really solid foam and have the approximate texture of rocks. Except that's not really fair to some rocks on which I've had a very pleasant nap. Plus one of them is covered in Hello Kitty fabric, which freaks me out. Anyway, I was so excited at T2000 when I saw an actual, soft pillow imported from Japan. It turned out to be two pillows, but I am in so much less pain that I really don't care. Yay!
So it turns out that the doctor I interviewed on Tuesday night is apparently the person who actually coined the terms "HIV" and "AIDS" in San Francisco in the early 1980's. I can't stress enough how remarkable this guy is – his commitment to serving the people most neglected in the global AIDS epidemic is entirely driven by his belief that Christ calls us to help the poor and marginalized. His foundation is fantastic – they provide HIV/AIDS prevention, testing, treatment, and health care worker training among refugees and internally displaced persons in some of the world's darkest corners – with Haitian refugees in the Dominican Republic, with rape victims in the eastern Congo, and with Liberians who have been living as refugees in Ghana for fifteen years.
Want to see some Aggie basketball players doing something really stupid? Oh, my!
Ew! EW!! EW!!! Actually-an-Actuary and I used to go have lunch there from time to time, but I think those outings will have to be confined to the Texas Chili Parlor in the future. The only rats there are the gambling lobbyists.
It's been a busy week in eastern Congo. The BBC has a great, simple explanation of the conflict here; definitely check it out if you get the chance.


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In order to conceive any realistic plan for post-Katrina island restoration, it is necessary to understand the physical processes that move sand along the littoral drift zone off the coast of Mississippi. This littoral zone influences the character of the Mississippi barrier islands as they exist in an ever changing cycle. To help in this...conference paper 2012


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You don't need to be good at maths (and I'm not) to know that three chickens, one person at home and everyone else on holiday means an awful lot of these…
Our three lovely chickies have been laying one egg each a day and even though I've been giving them to the neighbours… well, when there's only one neighbour that doesn't really help. So, I've been trying my best to find different things to do with them, my current favourite being an invention I am calling Garden Baked Eggs.
I'm calling it that because thanks to that one neighbour, we are lucky enough to have a constant supply of homegrown veggies in exchange for the eggs, so almost everything I threw into this came from either our garden or his.
I'll tell you what I put in by way of illustration, but everything apart from the eggs and some kind of cheese can be substituted depending on whatever you have to hand. That's why this is such a good recipe!
Garden Baked Eggs
for each person
Two free range eggs
Small handful each of sliced courgette, mushrooms, broad beans and red pepper
Three slices of chorizo, roughly chopped
Feta cheese, cubed
Lots of chopped fresh herbs (I used chives and oregano)
Tablespoon red pesto
Salt and pepper
Knob of butter and drizzle of olive oil
1) Drizzle a little olive oil into a shallow individual baking dish and brush around the inside. Turn the oven on at about 180ºC / Gas Mark 4 and put another larger baking dish inside. Put the kettle on.
2) Melt the butter in a frying pan and gently saute the veggies with some salt and pepper until softened.
3) Pile the vegetables into the small dish then sprinkle over the chorizo and feta. Make two wells in the mixture and carefully break an egg into each one.
4) Dot the pesto on top, sprinkle with herbs and grind over more black pepper.
5) Place the small dish inside the larger one, then carefully pour boiling water into the big dish so it comes about halfway up the sides of the little one.
6) Cook in the oven until the top is golden and the eggs are as done as you like them – I like the yolk still a bit runny – so about 10-15 minutes.
Yummy for lunch with salad and a big slice of crusty toast. Thanks girls!


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Three Cups of Tea by Mortenson & Relin: 4/16/09
We agreed this was not great literature, but a story worth reading about a complex charismatic with an important lesson for anyone interested in international relations. I was struck by the thought that if Greg Mortenson had appeared in my library during the days he was living out of his car and writing fundraising letters to famous people one by one, I probably would have figured he was a well-meaning dreamer with a very loose hold on sanity and no chance of succeeding with his "project." Another reminder that appearances can be profoundly deceiving.
Members expressed admiration for Mortenson's courage and perseverance, and appreciation for some insight into life in northern Pakistan and Afghanistan. While the tone of the book was very flattering of Mortenson in many respects, there was also enough revealed about his setbacks and weaknesses that many questions came up in discussion. Will his organization be able to continue its work once he's not there to lead it? DJ noticed that when he had the chance to speak with Rumsfeld at the Pentagon back home, Mortenson was not able to bring the open-hearted attitude of respectful listening he so notably offered when traveling abroad. She observed that tends to be a challenge for all of us…
We talked about the familiar profile of a powerful progressive leader who is far less than ideal to those he or she lives and works with. All the same, DV praised Mortenson as a great example of "why nerds are so wonderful!"
B suggested that we need a similar champion for schools in distressed communities in our own country.
W gave us sobering food for thought with a brief outline of the story of Afghanistan's last 100 years, including the expulsion of the British – twice – then the defeat of the Russians, followed not long after by the arrival of United States troops.
Other titles suggested by book club members: Leaving Microsoft to Change the World;Michener's Caravans.


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This a game to practice Childhood Activities vocabulary. The game includes 4 pages with 4 cards on each page. Each card has the information on a different spot. The teacher will use a copy of page 1 for an answer sheet and hand out as many of the cards to students as necessary. The teacher will read the information in the squares without the answers or identify the picture by saying "Square B1 or C3" etc. Students will search to see if they have the square the teacher referred to. Students must then fill in the missing information, use the prompts to write a sentence or write the name of the item in the square. If students have the square and complete the information correctly, then the square belongs to them or they own the square.
If you play tic-tac-toe the students must own 3 consecutive spaces, up and down, across or diagonally. The first student that does this wins the game. If you play bingo you can instruct students to take ownership of the squares in a "U" shape, a "T" shape, a square shape or have them do a "blackout" in which they must own all of the squares on the card in order to win the game.
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